Diablo
I don’t know how I didn’t sense her before she came to a crashing stop at the very edge of the clearing? But somehow I didn’t.
I didn’t even realise she was there until our eyes met. Gabrielle.
My sweet lionless lioness had come.
Relief flooded me, she didn’t hate me. She didn’t reject me. She was here and that meant there was renewed hope for us.
It gave me something to live for.
But hot on the heels of that relief came dread.
She was in danger here. So much danger it was suddenly hard to breathe.
The smart thing to do would be run, turn and draw the hunters I knew that were close as far away from her as possible.
It was what I had planned on doing , in my head anyway. My body had other ideas though.
I had taken a tentative step towards her when the billet ripped int
